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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14h

Joyce. Joyce Meadowcroft is my favorite “Thursday Murder Club” character. Just finished the third book in the series.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 17h

My Autumn 2026 course on the Russian and Soviet Jewish Experience at the University of Washington kicks off tomorrow. Check it out.

Russian & Soviet Jewish Experience

Examines the literature and cinema dealing with the experience of Jews from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the end of the 19th century to the present; the experience of Jews in imperial-era and Soviet-era Ukraine will be particularly emphasized. We will study: the cultural artifacts dealing with the inter-ethnic violence of the late Imperial period; experiences of and reflections on the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, the Holocaust, the post-Stalin period; the place of Jews as individuals and members of a minority group within Soviet society, ideology, and culture; migration and emigration; everyday life in the USSR, and among immigrant communities in America and elsewhere at the beginning of the 21st century. All readings in English; no prerequisites.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 23h

Today is 85 years since the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv where over the course of two days, September 29 and 30, 1941, the Germans shot nearly 34,000 of Kyiv’s Jews. The Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis documented the third anniversary (yortsayt) of the massacre in 1944, when … 1/3

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got a royalty statement for "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" @stanfordpress.bsky.social that Harriet Murav & I translated from Yiddish & Russian. Almost 800 copies sold in the first six months since publication. www.sup.org/books/jewish... 1/2

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brilliant. (Don’t know who made this, lyric credit obvious though.)

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Uh oh guess where I’m not getting any more rubber chickens etc again? (I have, in the past gotten their rubber chickens — the store is in my neighborhood and sometimes one needs the whimsical junk they sell). Not Archie McPhee!

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The new projected Berlin Bürgermeisterin — now that’s cool news.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

PSA for those in Seattle: “NAZA” playing at SIFF uptown starting on Oct 9.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alternative headline: Genocide Denier Gets Her Own Institute at a Prestigious U.S. University. For reference: www.dropthegenocide20.org/deborah-lips...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The USSR invaded Poland from the east 87 years ago today, which was two and a half weeks after Nazi Germany invaded it from the west.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sent a proposal and a sample chapter of a new translation project off to where an early interest in publishing it appears to already exist. Lips sealed for now—and fingers crossed.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I actually had no idea who Macklemore or Ed Sheeran were but Bob Kraft is definitely a fucking ghoulish idiot—in part because now I do.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Russian oligarch named Kremlev—who’s close to the Kremlin—paid for Don Jr.’s wedding? Who needs satire.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To quote / paraphrase the famous Soviet-era quip, «Не видел, но осуждаю!» — “I haven’t seen it but I denounce it!” (Origins of the phrase — now an idiom — in the mass hysteria about Boris Pasternak winning the Nobel Prize for “Doctor Zhivago,” which was denounced without being read)

Haaretz Today: Israelis Unite Against a New Enemy: 'NAZA,' a Film No One Has Seen

While the evidence of Israeli war crimes in the documentary film 'NAZA' may be extraordinary, the Israeli response to it is not

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

IDF 2026 freakout about the film “NAZA” based on interviews with Israel’s military personnel involved in decisions about targeting Gaza 🤝 2022 Putin’s law about “fakes” about the Russian military in Ukraine

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Don’t forget to get your new 2026 Covid booster. Just got mine at Walgreens.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was an incredible review — and a damning piece of writing.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You know who the allies and supporters of the Nazis who just won the most votes (estimated 44%) in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany are? Trump, Putin, and, yes, Netanyahu.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Read Dara Horn’s new book. If you, like me, are a masochist who plans to read it, I recommend the audiobook, read by the author. Every time Palestinians are mentioned, the printed text may give only the partial impression of mockery and contempt in the author’s voice, go to audio for full picture.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bari Weiss is a one-trick — Islamophobic — pony.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Islamophobia has been Bari Weiss’s middle name since her days as a Columbia undergraduate. Utterly repugnant.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

University of Washington being super sneaky trying to push major Student Conduct Code changes (drafted, with oodles of errors, by a law firm they hired for the job) in the dead of summer (school year starts Sept 30) www.seattletimes.com/education-la... @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

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Proposed changes to UW's protest policy spark student, faculty concern

Under the new code of conduct, students who are present during a protest could be held accountable for property damage they did not cause, faculty members say.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Considering reading Dara Horn’s new polemical drivel that drops next week—research, I suppose, for general awareness of what “mainstream” Jewish orgs are going to regurgitate in months to come—but, based on listening to a long podcast interview w/ her about the book, I want hazard pay for this job.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just finished reading Eyal Weizman’s “Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,” about Gaza. He’s a scholar of architecture who runs something called the Forensic Architecture lab, and also a Jewish Israeli. Wow. Mind-blowing. I learned a lot.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Summertime—with most students & faculty away—is when U of Washington it quietly trying to ram through major changes to the Student Conduct Code containing troubling items around the issue of, well, student protests @thedailyuw.bsky.social @sophiasostrin.bsky.social www.dailyuw.com/article/uw-p...

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UW propels student conduct code changes in between summer academic quarters

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The summer, with most students & faculty away, is when UW’s upper admin tries to quietly ram through major changes to the Student Conduct Code containing troubling items around the issue of, well, student protests. www.dailyuw.com/article/uw-p... @thedailyuw.bsky.social @sophiasostrin.bsky.social

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UW propels student conduct code changes in between summer academic quarters

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

lol 😂 AIPAC has become *this* toxic (though the Rogers campaign asking them not to run ads is also a form of coordinating with PACs that’s technically not supposed to happen.) www.newsweek.com/mike-rogers-...

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Mike Rogers team asked AIPAC not to run ads against El-Sayed: Report

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers asked AIPAC not to air ads targeting Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Axios reported Saturday.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You'd better believe it.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One day that fucking ballroom will be the national museum of corruption. If we’re lucky.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Color me unsurprised? But also: Rep. Jamie Raskin (who’s Jewish) is launching the investigation of the sham investigators who care not at all about antisemitism — that’s the good news (link to Raskin’s letter in this article but also reported elsewhere). forward.com/news/845678/...

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Whistleblower claims Trump's campus antisemitism crackdown was a cash grab

A new report alleges that the administration’s probes were politically motivated and flouted due process.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One of the crazier details in the recent New Yorker article about Trump’s friendship with Roy Cohn is that he had dishes at Mar-o-Lago fumigated after inviting Cohn, then dying of AIDS, for dinner there in the 1980s. The two ghouls are clearly worth each other.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Don’t steal other people’s pens! (A brilliant ad.)

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At least he picked the Human Printer over the Santa Monica Goebbels to be on the survivor plane with him.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

AIPAC going after Thomas effing Friedman is just 🤯

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looking at the nail-biter of the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor (90% in now and still too close to call), just wistfully wishing effing Biden stepped the f— and a year or two earlier let us have an effing primary back in 2024.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just keep him in a fucking catering cart for the next two years.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

August is Women in Translation Month! Introducing Dina Kalinovskaya (1934-2008), translated into English for the first time by Harriet Murav & me for our new book with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. She was from and wrote about Odesa; I especially loved working on this paragraph about the Odesa harbor.

Excerpt from Dina Kalinovskaya’s “The Picture in the Teacup” included into “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union.”

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

August is Women in Translation Month: one of the writers Harriet Murav & I translated for our new book is Rivka Rubin--a Soviet Yiddish author now published in English for the 1st time. We have two stories of hers in the book; here's an excerpt from "That Kind of Day.” @stanfordpress.bsky.social 1/2

An excerpt from “That Kind of Day” by Rivka Rubin, translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The problem with having Haley Stevens as the AIPAC-supported Dem nominee also is that AIPAC wouldn’t very much care about her actually winning the senate seat — they are an equal-opportunity one-issue lobby who are way more comfortable with the Republican winning that race, and the Senate.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Finished Asako Yuzuki’s “Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder” (trans by Polly Barton) while on a long plane ride last night. And it was so long that I realized I had nothing after it in mg queue. What are y’all reading this summer? (Existence of an audiobooks version of your recs preferred.)

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham is having a 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell.

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